:::SPECIAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS::: Texts that intersect science and literature will be given priority for an upcoming curated issue of Dear Sir,. Please refer to the general submission guidelines below and be sure to mention "sci&lit" (or some variation) in the subject line of your email.

ABOUT
Dear Sir, is a quarterly online journal created from the want to present innovative, unconventional or emerging voices in literature. It is based around the concept of quality over quantity, and will therefore only feature a clutch of writers in each issue whose work in some way, and somehow, surprises.

Dear Sir, follows an intentionally minimalist layout, where the frame of the page defers to the writing within (where site is retina then writing = iris and page the sclera).

The idea for Dear Sir, came about while reading Ulysses: if magazines like The Little Review and the Egoist never took a chance on serializing Joyce's work in 1918, we may never have had it in 1922.

Starting in 2010, Dear Sir, will be the English language journal of the Vienna Poetry Academy, and shares its goal of pursuing new media explorations in contemporary poetry.

SUBMIT
Dear Sir, wants to take chances. Is playful. Will play.

Send short or long poems, submit narratives, fragments, notations of sound poems, marginalia, experiments and manifestos, send traditional forms revamped, dialogues, monologues and monosyllables. Dear Sir, leans towards the poetic, the speculative and the cross-genre.

A note on translations: creativity and poetic license are strongly encouraged in your English translation – think metonymy over copy. If you have something already translated, do send, as long as the writer translated from is an emerging one (i.e. not established) or that your translation of an established writer is somehow whacky.

A note on collaborations: yes.

Of note: Dear Sir, also goes by Sandra Huber.

All submissions should be sent to sir [at] dearsir [dot] org either in the body of an email or as ONE .doc/.pdf attachment (yourname_daymonthyear_genre.doc, eg. williamcarloswilliams_12081917_poetry.doc ) with a brief note about yourwonderfulself.

Wha-ZAM